Methodologically flawed and unreproducible reports published by anti-abortion organizations do not outweigh decades of rigorous peer-reviewed research that overwhelmingly demonstrates the safety of medication abortion.

For second-trimester abortions, taking two mifepristone means needing less misoprostol, which eases painful contractions and shortens the time to uterine expulsion.

“The FDA’s review is a politically motivated farce. Mifepristone is safe and effective. We know it, the FDA knows it, and the more than 7.5 million people who’ve used mifepristone for abortion and miscarriage care over the past 25 years know it too.”

One point I think deserves more attention: In addition to worrying about grants cut or never funded based on ideology, we probably also ought to worry about outside groups (like, @shobitap.org points out in my piece, big tech) gaining influence over research priorities and individual grants.

This research lends further evidence to the reports we have heard from health care providers across the country — many patients are facing substantial barriers to evidence-based miscarriage care in states with abortion bans.

The decision to conduct this review is based on politics and ideology, not science. Decades of gold-standard scientific evidence have overwhelmingly demonstrated the safety of mifepristone, including when it is provided using telehealth.

The FDA’s ongoing review of mifepristone could skip over established science, health experts warn

The Trump administration is using this sham review to tee up baseless, nationwide restrictions on medication abortion. Mifepristone is safe and effective — just ask the millions of patients who have used it.

Ectopic pregnancies, which occur when an embryo implants somewhere other than the uterine lining, are never viable and can be life-threatening. Despite this, doctors in Arkansas and Oklahoma attempted to discharge a patient with an ectopic pregnancy without treatment.

There’s nothing “science-based” about this FDA review. There are 100+ high-quality studies demonstrating the safety of mifepristone. There’s no conflicting evidence about health or safety — it’s a clown report from anti-abortion orgs that’s not peer-reviewed & has about 48 internal validity errors.

BREAKING (again, sorry) the order is in: The Fifth Circuit's ruling is again blocked. Mifepristone remains available via telehealth. Alito and Thomas dissent. Thomas' dissent mentions the Comstock Act, the 1873 anti vice law conservatives want to use to ban mailing abortion pills.

Good news! The stay granted by SCOTUS isn’t a victory, per se. It never should have gotten this far, and these pro-Comstock dissents are stomach churning. But this does mean that abortion access in the U.S. won’t get WORSE today, and I’ll take that.

Decades of gold-standard scientific evidence have overwhelmingly demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of medication abortion. Anti-abortion attacks on access to medication abortion are about politics and ideology, not health.

Just a reminder as this case continues to move forward: The actual scientific evidence supports *expanding* access to medication abortion, not restricting it.

Proud to be one of the 360 reproductive health researchers who just filed an amici curiae brief with SCOTUS in support of medication abortion as this case continues. The science is crystal clear — abortion pills are safe and effective, and we should be making them MORE accessible, not less!

This staunchly conservative court’s decision to unnecessarily disrupt medication abortion access nationwide is based on ideology, NOT evidence. Abortion pills are still safe, still effective, and still available by mail through community networks:

We want to remind everyone that mifepristone is safe. Mifepristone has been used safely by more than five million people in the U.S., with a safety record better than common drugs like Tylenol or Viagra.

Mifepristone is not illegal. It is not being taken off the market. LOUDER NOW. Mifepristone is not illegal. It is not being taken off the market.

I haven't been following the birthright citizenship case, but after spending the last year writing about fetal personhood, it strikes me that the right is trying to read birth out of the 14A in both directions. Immigrants born here shouldn't get rights but fetuses not yet born should.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

UPDATE: The Montana Supreme Court has decided to keep several burdensome restrictions on the state’s abortion clinics ❌BLOCKED❌ while our case to get them struck down for good proceeds.

NEW: Our latest analysis shows that top news outlets frequently vilify people criminalized for allegedly self-managing an abortion in ways that help to legitimize the policing of pregnancy and normalize far-right "fetal personhood" ideology. Open access article ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41090543/

Please help support @psabortionfund.bsky.social in covering the $10,000 bail for a South Carolina woman who was recently arrested for the so-called “crime” of disposing of her own pregnancy tissue after experiencing a miscarriage: donorbox.org/legal-fees

Pssst 🗣️ They’re using abortion to challenge EMTALA (which legally requires ERs to provide stabilizing care regardless of your ability to pay) while kicking 16 million people off health insurance, closing hospitals, and ending medical school loans during a primary care shortage. They want you dead.

NEW: The Senate bill "defunding" Planned Parenthood is just one front in the war to ban abortion without explicitly banning it. The right is vying to cut off federal funds, shutter clinics, restrict abortion pills, and let protestors terrorize abortion seekers—and put abortion entirely out of reach

I hope it’s clear to everyone that this budget bill quite literally defunds every social assistance program in the country to increase funding for ICE, defense contractors, and millionaires.

Babes I’m gonna be honest we got people being disappeared by ICE and having their corpses used as incubators so I could not possibly care less about however Sabrina Carpenter wants to consensually sexualize herself

Pay attention to this. Abortion is under attack—but it’s also often a canary in the coal mine. HIPAA *ALREADY* prohibited disclosing health info, just like EMTALA *ALREADY* required hospitals to provide emergency abortions. Biden just reiterated that. The GOP wants to upend HIPAA & EMTALA entirely.

Kelcie has been all over this horrifying story Opinion and order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... One page judgement: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👽😘 #fixyourheartsordie

May Adriana Smith finally rest in peace. What Emory Hospital & Georgia have put her family through is unimaginable. It turns my stomach to see people say someone who died in February just “gave birth.” You can donate to help Adriana’s family with the enormous medical bill and care of her sons here:

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Let's be clear: our collective failure to normalize abortion as vital healthcare (including among liberals) leaves abortion providers and pro-abortion legislators uniquely vulnerable. Sending love to Minnesota and especially to the Hortman and Hoffman families. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

The Minnesota shooter reportedly had a hit list of almost 70 people, including abortion providers and abortion rights advocates. Just this week, a House committee advanced a bill that would repeal a federal law protecting abortion clinics www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Status of post-Dobbs abortion bans as of 5/28/25: ❌ Total ban: SD, OK, TX, AR, MS, AL, LA, KY, TN, ID, WV, IN, MO ❌ 6-wk: SC, FL, IA, GA ❌ 12-wk: NC, NE ❌ 18-wk: UT 🚫 Ban blocked but no available clinics: ND ✅ Ban recently blocked and clinics available: WY, AZ

This one is a must read, especially for folks still evolving on the urgent need to abolish family policing. One part of this infuriating story to highlight is that the only people who fundraised and provided material support to this teen and her baby…was abortion funds.

No matter your status, you deserve access to care and support. We know people have a lot of questions about their rights around both abortion and immigration. That’s why @ineedana.bsky.social and us along with @immdefenseproject.bsky.social, created a guide: www.ineedana.com/blog/how-can...

Help support Adriana Smith’s family as they navigate the growing costs of this tragedy:

If this rightfully disgusts you, know that about half of states have pregnancy exclusions for advanced medical directives.

Adriana Smith was a young mom and Emory Hospital nurse who tragically lost her life in February while nine weeks pregnant. Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus. The cruelty is unfathomable.

The best later abortion reporting I’ve ever read. Thank you @amylittlefield.bsky.social for lifting up our patients and staff in such a tender, respectful way, and for calling out the terrible political decisions that got us viability bans.

Working on my first syllabus…what’s one classroom policy a professor had (grading, assignments, attendance, etc.) that you actually found really helpful?

FINALLY!

What police and prosecutors are doing to #KarenRead is WILD, but if this is how far they’ll go to frame a rich white woman who was dating a cop and has a world class defense team, imagine what they do to low-income Black and brown folks every day. It’s not just corruption—it’s structural violence.

can we get a pimple patch but it’s a full face mask? all this anti-intellectualist authoritarianism is really clogging my pores

The FDA has replaced Dr. Peter Marks, the agency's top vaccines official, with a vocal critic of Marks: Dr. Vinay Prasad Prasad posted in March that his predecessor was "one of the most dangerous, pro-pharma regulators of the 21st century" www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-cri...

Um no? Trump’s DOJ is NOT defending medication abortion. They’re arguing the same thing SCOTUS previously ruled on standing (not the right plaintiffs) bc they think this lawsuit will fail and look like a big loss. They have easier paths — refile, enforce Comstock, or take internal HHS action.

as clear-cut a case of suppression of political speech as we’ve ever seen

HAPPY MAY DAY ABORTION IS A WORKERS’ RIGHTS ISSUE